Mbala
Mbala is Zambia's most northerly large town and seat of Mbala District in Northern Province, occupying a strategic location close to the border with Tanzania and controlling the southern approaches to Lake Tanganyika, 40 km by road to the north-west, where the port of Mpulungu is located.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: W507, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 118,000 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Mbala, Zambia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mbala War Memorial.
Mbala War Memorial
Memorial
Photo: W507, Public domain.
The Mbala War Memorial is a First World War memorial which stands on a roundabout on the M1 road heading south from the centre of Mbala, Zambia. The truncated red stone column was one of the last war memorials designed by Edwin Lutyens.
Mbala
- Categories: ward of Zambia and locality
- Location: Northern Province, Zambia, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-8.84561° or 8° 50′ 44″ southLongitude
31.37092° or 31° 22′ 15″ eastPopulation
118,000Elevation
1,622 metres (5,322 feet)IATA airport code
MMQUnited Nations Location Code
ZM MMQOpen location code
6G3H593C+Q9OpenStreetMap ID
node 369007774OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
176146Wikidata ID
Q1014108
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Mbala” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Abercorn”
- Afrikaans: “Mbala”
- Arabic: “مبالا”
- Bulgarian: “Абъркорн”
- Bulgarian: “Мбала”
- Catalan: “Abercorn”
- Catalan: “Mbala”
- Cebuano: “Mbala”
- Chinese: “姆巴拉”
- Dutch: “Mbala”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مبالا”
- Finnish: “Abercorn”
- Finnish: “Mbala”
- French: “Mbala”
- German: “Mbala”
- Hebrew: “מבאלה”
- Italian: “Mbala”
- Japanese: “マバラ”
- Japanese: “ムバラ”
- Lithuanian: “Mbala”
- Moksha: “Мбала”
- Polish: “Mbala”
- Portuguese: “Abercorn”
- Portuguese: “Mbala”
- Romanian: “Mbala, Zambia”
- Romanian: “Mbala”
- Russian: “Аберкорн” (historical)
- Russian: “Мбала”
- Spanish: “Mbala”
- Swahili: “Mbala”
- Swedish: “Mbala”
- Ukrainian: “Мбала”
- Western Mari: “Мбала”
- Zulu: “Mbala, Zambiya”
- Zulu: “Mbala”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mbala”. Photo: W507, Public domain.